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A Need for Collaboration – and an Agenda for Progress – at a Time of Isolation

Posted by Hub Admin on April 1, 2020 at 10:05am in Education, Emergency Services, and Health IT

As daily life changes for everyone, we are all learning how to function in different, more-flexible ways. It is a learning exercise that feels – and often is – both individual and isolating. There’s an additional way to look at the lessons of the cor

When It Comes to SDOH, American Exceptionalism (Alas) is the Exception

Posted by Hub Admin on March 23, 2020 at 5:09pm in Education, Human Services, and Public Health

The situation in the United States is unique because of the wall that exists between health and social policy. The former is consuming close to 18 percent of U.S. GDP and, despite its terrible shortcomings, is a global symbol of medical prowess and i

Lessons from the Coronavirus Crisis: A Call to Arms for Real Action on the Social Determinants

Posted by Hub Admin on March 17, 2020 at 5:34pm in Education, Emergency Services, and Health IT

The coronavirus pandemic was front-and-center, of course, but the National Interoperability Collaborative (NIC) also had another broad, long-term objective in mind when it started planning this convening months ago, when the words “worst public healt

CVS Health will be pushing forward in its housing security and social determinants of health efforts heading into 2020.

Posted by Daniel Bach on February 28, 2020 at 2:34pm in Education, Emergency Services, and Health IT

CVS Health will be pushing forward in its housing security and social determinants of health efforts heading into 2020.

CVS Health invested a total of $67 million in affordable housing units in 2019 as a part of its efforts to address housing security

CHCS: The Importance of Integrated Care Models that Address Medical, Behavioral, and Social Health Needs

Posted by Navah Stein on February 27, 2020 at 1:25pm in Public Health

The Importance of Integrated Care Models that Address Medical, Behavioral, and Social Health Needs

Years ago, when I worked as a certified nurse-midwife in a federally qualified health center in the South Bronx in New York City, I worried: Was I actua

Research in Canada Underscores the Importance of the Social Determinants to Improve Population Health

Posted by Hub Admin on October 3, 2018 at 11:04am in Human Services and Public Health

It is crystal clear that focusing more attention and resources on the Social Determinants of Health and Well-Being (colloquially, where we live, work and play) yields better outcomes in almost every way. Notwithstanding the evidence, however, health

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